Development of Multicultural Value Orientations in Future Specialists in the Context of a Higher Education Institution

Abstract

The importance of this study is determined by the fact that fundamental social and
economic changes in contemporary Russian society have led to imbalance in the common
system of values that forms the basis of a teacher’s comprehensive world outlook. Under
conditions of a constant development and change of the value priorities’ nature the
problem of forming a stable system of future specialists’ value orientations that provides
the foundation for cross-cultural communication in a democratic society is of current
interest. In this connection, this article is directed towards the study of the development
of university students’ multicultural value orientations as a pressing problem of
contemporary professional education. The leading approach to scientific research aimed
at this specific problem is the theoretical and methodological approach that allows us to
comprehensively consider the problem of developing future specialists’ multicultural
value orientations in a context of a higher education institution. It has been substantiated
in the article that a key moment in the activity directed towards the development of
students’ multicultural value orientations is the identification of objectively existing
difficulties in a value perception of another culture and transference to the category of
goals, the attainment of which facilitates the development of multicultural value
orientations. The materials of the article can be useful for psychologists-practitioners,
social workers as well as staff members of educational institutions.